Flash Swag: Windows Vista Build 5472 DVD

We have reached our limit. All the DVDs are gone. If you replied before 8:00 AM PST on Thursday, August 10th with your mailing address you should receive one. (Please do not send mail to the blog owner requesting a DVD, there are no more to give out.) We hope to do more giveaways in the future so stay tuned.

I have a few DVDs left that I want to share with UAC blog readers so that you can see the progress on the prompt reduction work we’ve been doing since Beta 2. This build also has the new ActiveX Installer Service.

The first 75 people who send e-mail to [deleted] with their mailing addresses can get a DVD and product registration key. These copies expire May 31, 2007. We will not use your contact information for any other purpose and will delete all e-mails as soon as the DVDs are distributed. If you already have access to this build through one of the beta programs, please don’t request one of these DVDs so that someone else can get one.

Thanks to everyone for reading and for your comments. We hope to do more giveaways in the future.

Is Vista stable enough for a dual booting system? Paul Thurrott assures this, but you never know with betas… So that I can select XP from the boot menu for actual work, and keep Vista as a toy to test stuff? Paul Thurrott showed me that if you put in on a empty partitition, it will show a boot menu to choose. I assume that still stands. I can stand bugs in the user interface, but Vista MUST not screw XP in any way. Otherwise, ill rather wait for the finished version, or a later beta version like RC1. And obviously, there must be no bugs that make vista unbootable.

In addition to my previous comment about dual booting, it is much less risky than doing an updgrade. But there is always the potential with a beta OS that is could cause wider instability. So, if you do not want to take any risks with your production laptop I would not install it–even as a dual boot.

Please send me an email when the next build is released. I downloaded Vista Ultimate Build 5384. Would like to download Build 5472 and later. Send email to PYoung2302@hotmail.com. I will also be checking Vista Blogs and this Blog.